Wild Crabapple
You're making an investment in your land — protect it. Each kit has a Tree Pro tube and a slow-release fertilizer block for one tree. The tube keeps deer and rabbits off and can double your growth rate; the fertilizer feeds the tree through its first season. Plant with a kit, follow the Growing Guide, and your trees are covered by our 1-Year Survival Guarantee.
What you're planting
- Drop Time
- Sept – Dec
- First Crop
- 3–6 years
- Produces
- Every year
- Pollination
- Plant 2 or more
- Zones
- 4–9
- Sun
- Full sun, tolerates partial shade
- Soil & Site
- Well-drained preferred, adapts widely. pH 5.5–7.0.
- Size & Spacing
- 20–30ft · plant 20–30ft apart
Heavy crops of small fruit make excellent food for deer and birds like turkeys, grouse, and songbirds
Orders placed now are for Spring 2027 shipment
We take orders in advance and ship at the proper time for spring planting in your region — mid-December in the Deep South through the end of May up north. Pick your state under "When Will My Order Ship?" below and you’ll see your exact ship dates.
Get your order in now, we sell out early every season!
Our Wild Crabapples are about as easy to grow as they come and are a great food source for deer, quail, turkeys, pheasants, and songbirds. The crabapples produce 1/2in diameter fruits that ripen in Sept and persist into Nov or early Dec. They’re highly attractive to wildlife but especially birds as the relatively small fruits are the perfect size for them. These trees load down with a tremendous amount of fruit every fall and start producing at just 3-6yrs old. They grow very fast and are very disease resistant. Wild Crabapples make a great food source for all the wildlife that call your land home.
Plant each tree with one of our Survival Kits (a Tree Pro tube and a slow-release fertilizer block), follow our planting instructions, and it’s covered by our 1-Year Survival Guarantee. Full details here.
Drop time: Sept-Dec
Years till production: 3-6
Growing zones: Zones 4-9
Soil type: Prefers well drained soils, adaptable
Sun: Prefers full sun but tolerates partial shade
pH: 5.5-7.0
Pollination: Needs at least 2 trees for pollination
Size: 20-30ft tall at maturity
Size when shipped: 1yr old approx. 16-30 in
Spacing: 20-30ft
Add Late Drop and keep chestnuts falling into December.
By November most acorns have been mopped up and the woods go quiet. Late Drop Hybrids are selected to drop Nov–late Dec, right when deer have the fewest options. Our recommendation: a 1:1 mix.
Questions we get about Wild Crabapple
We don't ship on the day you order. We take orders in advance and ship at the proper time for spring planting in each region — from mid-December in the Deep South through the end of May up north. Pick your state below to see your exact window. Orders placed after your region has already shipped go out within 5–10 business days.
A Tree Pro grow tube and a slow-release fertilizer block for one tree. The tube protects the seedling from deer and rabbits and can double its growth rate; the fertilizer block feeds the tree through its first growing season. Every tree we ship is already inoculated with beneficial mycorrhizae, so there's nothing else to add — plant it in the kit, follow the Growing Guide, and it's covered by our 1-Year Survival Guarantee.
Plant with a Survival Kit and we guarantee the tree for a full year. If a tree dies within one year of the day it's delivered, we'll issue you store credit for what you paid for it. You don't have to worry about spending your money on something that may or may not make it.
To be covered, plant each tree with one of our Survival Kits (a Tree Pro tube and a slow-release fertilizer block), keep the tube on, and follow our planting instructions. Email us photos and your order number within a year of delivery.
For all details and conditions, see here: 1-Year Survival Guarantee
